Bentley Systems has announced the finalists for the 2025 Going Digital Awards, which recognise infrastructure engineering companies, construction firms and owner-operators who are transforming project delivery and asset performance through digital innovation
Finalists across 12 categories were selected by independent panels of global industry experts from among nearly 250 nominations submitted by organisations in 47 countries.
The finalists will present their projects at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure conference in Amsterdam, with the winners announced on 16 October.
“We are inspired by the ways infrastructure professionals continue to deliver better, more resilient infrastructure, despite so many global challenges, from climate change to infrastructure workforce shortages,” said Chris Bradshaw, chief sustainability and education officer at Bentley Systems.
“This year’s Going Digital Awards finalists demonstrate the tangible impact advances in AI, digital twins and more are having in driving greater productivity and resilience across the infrastructure lifecycle.”
The 2025 Going Digital Awards finalists are:
Bridges and Tunnels
- Italferr (Italy): Leveraging Digital Technologies for Improved Infrastructure Management.
- Pennoni (USA): I-95 Penn’s Landing CAP Project.
- SENER (Brazil): Salvador-Ilha de Itaparica Bridge.
Cities, Campuses & Facilities
- Adax Consultoria em Tecnologia da Informação on behalf of Unidade Gestora de Projetos Especiais (Brazil): Social and Environmental Programme for Manaus and the Interior (Prosamin+)
- MMI Planning & Engineering Institute IX Co (China): Stamping Workshop of the Prosperity Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park Project in Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone.
- Voyants Solutions Private (India): Preparation of Masterplan, Detailed Design and Project Management of Atal Puram Township, Agra, India.
Construction
- ACCIONA (Australia): M80 Ring Road Completion.
- Deloitte and Vale (Brazil): Synchro 4D Powering the World’s First Iron Ore Briquetting Plant.
- Italferr (Italy): Digital Construction Site 4.0: Innovation and Monitoring of Work Progress.
- Mortenson/McCarthy Joint Venture (USA): Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center.
Energy Production
- Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co (China): Digital Intelligent Construction Project for a Steel Plant Based on Bentley Technology.
- PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk (Indonesia): Refuse-derived Fuel (RDF) Rorotan – Pioneering Sustainable Waste to Energy Solution.
- Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co (China): Survey and Design of China’s First Pumped-Storage Power Station in a Complex Karst Area – Caiziba Pumped-Storage Power Station in Fengjie, Chongqing.
Geospatial and Reality Modelling
- Al Madinah Region Development Authority (MDA) (Saudi Arabia): Manarah Urban Data Platform.
- Haskoning (UK): Holyhead Deepwater Jetty Inspection.
- Mott MacDonald (UK): Bristol Harbour Asset Condition Survey with 3D Geospatial Platform.
Project Delivery
- Egis (France): Canal Seine Nord Europe.
- Foth Infrastructure & Environment (USA): Mississippi River Bridge at Lansing.
- Italferr (Italy): New Palermo-Catania-Messina Railway Connection.
Rail & Transit
- Network Rail (UK): Severn Tunnel Digital Transformation.
- PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Indonesia): Smart Infrastructure by KAI & AssetWise Linear Analytics.
- PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk (Indonesia): Smart Infrastructure: Digital Transformation of LRT Jakarta Phase 1B.
Roads & Highways
- Arcadis (Australia): Warringah Freeway Upgrade.
- Jabatan Kerja Raya Sarawak (JKRS) (Malaysia): Sarawak Sabah Link Road Phase 2.
- PowerChina ZhongNan Engineering Corporation (China): Ecological Highway from Detian Transnational Waterfall to Shuolong Border.
Structural Engineering
- AVS Engineers | ISID Architect: Nikhil Mahashure and Associates, Structural Engineer – Siddharth Sharma (AVS Engineers | ISID) (India): Fairmount Palace, Udaipur.
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (India): Skywalk at New Delhi Railway Station.
- Hyundai Engineering (South Korea): Design Automation for Modular and Precast Concrete Structures with STAAD.
Subsurface Modelling & Analysis
- Anglo American (Brazil): Integrated Risk Management for Open Pit Operations.
- Fervo Energy (USA): Cape Station.
- Flux Energy Solutions (Türkiye): Geothermal Field Optimization using Numerical Simulation and AI.
Transmission & Distribution
- APD Global (Australia): Digital Transformation of 132kV Bunning Lake Substation.
- BAM Infra Netherlands (Netherlands): Mainstation Schiphol – Amsterdam Airport.
- China Energy Engineering Group Guangxi Electric Power Design Institute Co (China): Application of GIS+BIM Digital Intelligence Technology to the Entire Lifecycle of China Southern Power Grid’s Guangxi Nanning 500kV Power Transmission and Transformation Project.
Water and Wastewater
- CSCEC AECOM Consultants Co (China): Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Urban Flood Control and Drainage Capacity in Northwest China Based on Digital Technology.
- Empresas Públicas de Medellín EPM (Colombia): Modelling and Optimisation of the Medellín Aqueduct Primary Network.
- PT Wika Tirta Jaya Jatiluhur (WTJJ) (Indonesia): SPAM Regional Jatiluhur I: Transforming Water for a Better Tomorrow.
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